>>> On 4/4/2013 at 10:24 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > Do I understand correctly that license terms do not allow the number > of specialty processors to exceed the number of general processors?
No, there is no such restriction. IBM does and has sold IFL-only systems with no CPs in them. They call them ELS (Enterprise Linux Systems). -snip- > Can a single LPAR have a mixture of general processors and IFLs? On newer machines, you can define what's called a "z/VM mode LPAR" that contains any mixture of CPs, IFLs, zIIPs, and zAAPs. You need to be running a recent version of z/VM to make use of it, since z/VM can ensure that z/OS, z/VSE, and z/TPF only get dispatched on CPs, etc. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
